Toni Graschberger
Toni Graschberger (born July 27, 1915 in Munich ) was a German actor and artistic director at various German theaters.
Live and act
Theater career before, during and after the Second World War
Graschberger studied art history and costume studies in Munich and then went to the state drama school . He worked at the Bavarian State Theater and in Freiberg (Saxony) .
From Graschberger a letter from the "East, in summer 41", to the "dear Mr. Curate " (Pastor Wellenhofer ) has been handed down. He wrote:
“Far from Russia , this letter comes to you from the Sea of Azov .
We have come a long way. With the beginning of the Russian campaign we are at the fore as a tank division. One great battle after another was fought, and the Russian's resistance is still tough and tough. Meter by meter must be wrested from him in heavy, bloody fighting. And now we are close to the largest company again. Judging from what the enemy has encountered here, we can be prepared for something. But this resistance, too, will and must be broken, no matter how hard it gets. One day it will come to an end with Russia too. And then we came a good deal closer to peace.
I've seen and experienced a lot here myself. But one thing above all fills my days here. A tremendous longing for the theater ... I got [through] the experience of the front. If I am lucky enough to come back from the war safe, I hope that all the difficulty here has only matured me and brought me closer to the essentials. However, it will be a long time before I can be on stage again. Our newspapers ... have certainly written about the misery of the Russian population. And yet the most detailed description cannot give a distant picture of reality. For us Germans such conditions are simply incomprehensible. If one is forced to see these pictures day after day, one only has the wish to get out of this country as soon as possible. I would have been very happy if I had seen Greece ... and these classic sites, but we are sitting in this Russia.
Dear Mr. Kurat, I have to close, it goes on. Please excuse the bad writing, I can only write here with great difficulty. My hands give me great trouble. I also have to apologize for the paper, there is not even stationery in Russia, an exercise book must serve as a substitute.
I stay with my warmest regards, Toni Graschberger
As soon as I have a little time, a detailed letter will follow. "
In the winter of 1941, Graschberger was released from gun duty to stage " Eugene Onegin " at the Great Opera in Stalino (now Donetsk ) . As a result, he took over the management of the house, later that of the two theaters of Nikolayev and the Great Opera of Odessa .
“During the German occupation, the city became a battlefield. The Gestapo had its headquarters in what is now the Donbass Palace, the commandant's office was housed in what was later to be the theater café. In the city theater "Stalino" - today's opera house on Artjom-Straße - Toni Graschberger from the Munich State Theater staged " Coppélia " by Léo Delibes and the "Faded Dream" after Pushkin . In the end, German military cemeteries were laid out on the wasteland and columns of prisoners of war marched through the ruins. Later Germans from Transylvania who were abducted came to Donbass . "
From 1949 to 1952 he was the artistic director of the Ingolstadt City Theater . During this time he performed a Karl May play in a nearby quarry. Later he was at the Landesschauspiel Memmingen .
Cuxhaven, Wiesmoor and Schleswig
From Memmingen, Graschberger came to Cuxhaven as artistic director and managing director of a theater company . He expanded the open-air stage at Ritzebüttel Castle and brought Karl May productions here and on the open-air stage in Wiesmoor (district of Aurich): “Winnetou”, “Unter Vultures” and “The Treasure in Silver Lake”. The Wiesmoor performance of “The Treasure in the Silver Lake” was staged in 1965 by Bruno Thost .
Since 1967 Graschberger was director of the Niederdeutsche Bühne Flensburg and the Schleswig-Holstein Speeldeel , from 1968 to 1973 director of the Nordmark-Landestheater in Schleswig.
Bad Segeberg
Toni Graschbeger was the artistic director and director of the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg from 1971 to 1974, where he also worked with Thost again in front of and behind the scenes.
His staging of “Winnetou” in the anniversary year 1971 caused a sensation, but it also caused him problems because there were financial deficits.
In the following year, Graschberger brought another revival, "In the Gorges of the Balkans", with a significant number of spectators. He reworked individual passages with Thost.
In 1973, the only time in Bad Segeberg, he borrowed a text book from Elspe : Jochen Bludau's first adaptation of “ Unter Vultures - The Spirit of the Llano Estacado ”.
In 1974 he presented another, lavish premiere to Bad Segeberg: “The Legacy of the Inca” as the only production of the novel to date. He wrote the book together with Roland Schmid . In the radio play recording he spoke the role of Pedro.
After fluctuating audience numbers, his contract was canceled by the city two years earlier.
More work
From 1974 to 1978 Graschberger was director of the Theater Hof (Saale) and made a name for himself here with music theater .
In 1981, under the artistic direction of Graschberger, two sure-fire pieces went over the romantic forest and rock stage on Wehelitzer Berg in Trebgast : Shakespeare's “ Was ihr wollt ” and Anzengruber's “double suicide”.
source
- Entry in the Karl May Wiki
Works
- Text book "The legacy of the Inka" (together with Roland Schmid )
- Letter from the summer of 1941 . In: Karl-Theodor Schleicher, Heinrich Walle (ed.): From field post letters from young Christians 1939–1945. A contribution to the history of Catholic youth in the field (historical messages, supplements, volume 60) , Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2005, p. 204 f.
literature
- Nicolas Finke: Bad Segeberg: The Mecca of Karl May fans. A review , in: Karl May & Co. No. 53/54, 1993, pp. 31-34.
- Nicolas Finke: In the wild west. On the history of the Karl May Games in Ratingen. Part 3: How Elspe and Pierre Brice came to the Blue Lake , in: Karl May & Co. No. 120/2010, pp. 16–23.
- Nicolas Finke, Torsten Greis: 45 Years of the Karl May Games Bad Segeberg , in: Karl May & Co. No. 66/1996, pp. 24–27; No. 67/1997, pp. 8-11.
- Beate Jörger, Torsten Greis, Regina Arentz: one-two, one-two. Behind the acoustic scenes of Bad Segeberg , in: Karl May & Co. No. 53/54, 1993, pp. 49–51.
- Reinhard Marheinecke , Nicolas Finke, Torsten Greis, Regina Arentz: Karl May am Kalkberg. History and stories of the Karl-May-Spiele Bad Segeberg since 1952 , Bamberg / Radebeul: Karl-May-Verlag 1999.
- Bruno Thost : From Radeberg to Segeberg , in: Karl-May-Rundbrief No. 49/1992, pp. 26-29.
Web links
- Toni Graschberger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Printed in: Schleicher, Walle (ed.): From field post letters of young Christians 1939–1945… , 2005, p. 204 f.
- ↑ The Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater during the War , historical overview of the Donbass Opera (in Russian); in it the sentence (in German translation): "Since June 1942 the director of the Munich Opera, Toni Graschberger, was appointed director and theater director, and the theater was renamed City Opera and Ballet Theater."
- ↑ See: Review of Horst-Jürgen Gerigk: Puschkin and the world of our dreams .
- ↑ Online article in SZ.de from August 26, 2014.
- ^ Rudolf Koller and Siegfried Hofmann: The theater in Ingolstadt since 1945 ( online version ).
- ↑ http://www.schleswiger-speeldeel.de/seite/195797/de-schelm-vun-möhlbrook.html
- ↑ Compilation of the history of theaters in Schleswig-Holstein (online at pkgodzik.de)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Bad_Segeberg_1971)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/In_den_Schluchten_des_Balkan_(Bad_Segeberg_1972)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_Estacado_(Bad_Segeberg_1973)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Das_Vermächtnis_des_Inka_(Bad_Segeberg_1974)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-hoerspiele.info/vrolleinfo.php?_id=613
- ↑ Reinhard Marheinecke u. a .: Karl May am Kalkberg ... , 1999, p. 146 and 161.
- ↑ http://frankenland.franconica.uni-wuerzburg.de/login/data/1981_47.pdf
- ↑ Currently cannot be found; Reference to this in: Marheinecke u. a .: Karl May am Kalkberg ..., 1999, p. 158.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Wulf Leisner |
Director of the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg 1971 - 1974 |
Harry Walther |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Graschberger, Toni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |